Will Trump slash Egypt and Jordan’s aid?

He will regret opening hell on Gaza. Hamas will not kneel.

Abdel Bari Atwan
US President Donald Trump proves daily that he is a foolish student to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and he has begun to implement his dictates literally and with unexpected enthusiasm, not only in Gaza and the West Bank but throughout the Middle East. His party, the US, prestige, and strategic interests would suffer if he submitted to his tutor.
Trump launched two serious threats in the previous two days that might cost the US a major defeat and most of its Middle Eastern allies:
The first is ending all American financial aid to Egypt and Jordan, America’s two biggest Western allies, if they don’t accept more than two million Palestinians, to “buy” the Gaza Strip, empty it, and plunder its wealth.
Second: The Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” has given it till mid-Saturday to free all Israeli captives or face hell.
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The first threat is suspending money to Egypt and Jordan if they don’t take Gaza refugees. All indicators show they will not bow to this threat, which, if implemented, will result in the following:
First: Egypt and Jordan might annul the Camp David Accords and Wadi Araba Peace Agreement with the occupying state and close 16 American bases on their land because aid is a fundamental clause.
Second: US-Egypt-Jordan tensions rising. Strong media leaks are suggesting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will cancel his February 18 visit to Washington after his foreign minister returned disappointed by the Trump administration’s threats to relocate Gazans to the Sinai Desert forcibly. The Jordanian people, government, and the throne all oppose the relocation and will fight it regardless of the consequences.
Thirdly, these American threats, supported by Israel and impolite and arrogant, will certainly turn the “Arab Moderation Axis” into a Resistance Axis led by the Egyptian-Saudi-Jordanian triangle. The emergency Arab conference in Cairo on February 27 may launch this axis eastward to China and northward to Russia.
Fourth: Trump’s and Netanyahu’s crude contempt for Arab leaders and violation of their sovereignty have soured relations. Trump mocked the Egyptian president as “the general” at his last press conference with Netanyahu. Netanyahu claimed Egypt was turning Gaza into a jail and sought a Palestinian state on Saudi soil. After Trump disrespected Saudi Arabia, America’s key ally, by claiming he was willing to normalise relations without building a Palestinian state and extorting a trillion dollars from it like a banana republic, this demand came.
If we move on to the second threat, giving “Hamas” until noon next Saturday to release all Israeli detainees or hell will be unleashed, Trump may pay a severe price for it for the following reasons:
The first: Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump’s master, failed to subjugate the “Hamas” movement, force it to surrender, and fulfil his promises to uproot it from the sector after 15 months of war in which he used extermination, ethnic cleansing, destruction, massacres, and starvation. Will Trump’s “hell” succeed where Netanyahu failed?
The second: Hamas’ release of Israeli hostages showed its smart management of exchange operations that garnered global political and media attention, which it used to assert its strength and absolute control over the sector, surprising its enemies and friends.
Third: Hamas’s halt of the prisoner exchange process in protest of Israel’s violation of the ceasefire terms by shooting and killing displaced people returning from the south to the north with drone strikes shows the movement’s confidence in itself, its immediate ability to respond with courage and valour, its lack of fear of the ceasefire agreement being cancelled, and its readiness to face all possibilities.
The fourth: For the resistance, with all its factions in Gaza, to remain above and below ground after a fierce extermination war means a major defeat for Netanyahu and Trump and all the arms of global Zionism, and a victory for the “Al-Aqsa Flood” and its culture and its new equations, the most prominent of which is burying futile negotiations and all the lies of peace and strengthening the path of resistance as the only way to restore the land and the
Trump should follow through on his promises, stop aid, and send soldiers to Gaza. His displacement efforts will fail in Gaza, and Netanyahu and his party will repent their arrogance, rudeness, and incompetence. They will miss their troops in Baghdad, Kabul, and Vietnam… they are gone.